The Beano timeline

This is a timeline of events concerning the long-running D. C. Thomson & Co. comic The Beano.

Timeline
YearDateEventReferences
193830 JulyThe first ever issue of The Beano goes into print with Big Eggo as the cover star.
1939 1 September The Beano Annual is first published.
195117 MarchIssue 452, Dennis the Menace makes his first appearance.
195318 AprilIssue 561, Roger the Dodger makes his first appearance.
19538 AugustIssue 577, Dennis the Menace's arch-enemy Walter the Softy is introduced when he moved in.
195319 DecemberIssue 596, Minnie the Minx makes her first appearance.
195413 FebruaryIssue 604, The Bash Street Kids are introduced under the title When the Bell Rings.
1959George Moonie is succeeded as Beano editor by Harold Cramond
1961SeptemberBeano strikes 1000.The front cover contains a range of Beano characters.
1962August David Sutherland begins drawing The Bash Street Kids, something he still does to this very day.
196416 MayBilly Whizz is introduced.
196831 AugustIssue 1363, Gnasher makes his first appearance.
197414 SeptemberDennis the Menace becomes the incumbent cover star of the Beano taking over from Biffo the Bear.
197518 OctoberIssue 1735, Ball Boy is introduced.
19765 JuneIssue 1768, The Dennis the Menace fan club( is introduced. For 30p, which went to the Beano office, you could get cool badges, secured in the Fan Club Wallet.
198015 NovemberBeano strikes 2000.On the back cover you would see the first ever beano cover.
1984OctoberHarold Cramond retires as Beano editor and is succeeded by Euan Kerr.
1986AprilGnasher goes missing, which leaves Dennis distraught, prompting a nationwide search for the beloved cartoon canine.
1986MayGnasher returns home with a litter of puppies.
1990The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show is first aired on CITV and then TCC.
1993The Beano Video (aka Beano All-Stars) is launched on VHS, which animates the Beano characters for the first time.
1994The Beano Videostars is released as a follow up to the Beano Video.
199817 OctoberIssue 2931, Dennis the Menace's sister Bea is born.
1998The Dennis the Menace fan club finishes, and The Beano Club begins. However, it would return 20 years later.
20001 JanuaryIssue 2998, The Beano's New Millennium special is released.
200015 JanuaryThe Beano celebrates its 3000th issue.
200113 JanuaryIssue 3052, Minnie the Minx's artist Jim Petrie retires after almost 40 years, with his 2000th and last Minnie strip featured in the issue.[1]
200119 JulyBronze statues of Minnie the Minx and Desperate Dan, measured at approximately 8ft, are unveiled in Dundee city centre.[2]
20025 JanuaryIssue 3105, Freddie Fear: Son of a Witch is introduced.
2003A Beano-Dandy crossover strip, Dandy Days in Beanotown is published in The Dandy due to the rivalry between the two comics.
2003 2 August The Beano turns 65 , and a special birthday issue is released, where Dennis puts on some shorts belonging to Jimmy from the comic strip Jimmy and his magic patch.
200714 MarchWayne's in Pain is announced as the newest Bash Street Kid. However, he only lasts a year.
200727 OctoberIssue 3404, Laura Howell becomes The Beano's very first female artist after her strip Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green makes its debut.
2007In the comic's biggest revamp the paper style finally changed from newsprint to a glossy paper, much in the style of the inside pages of the then companion papers Dandy Xtreme and BeanoMAX.
2008 2 August The Beano turns 70 and celebrates with A event called Gnashional Menace day, where every body has to be naughty like Dennis.
200929 AugustDennis the Menace and Gnasher are revamped to coincide with the new animated series.
20124 DecemberThe Beano becomes the last weekly humour anthology comic after The Dandy prints its final edition having recently celebrated 75 years.
20138 JulyThe Dennis and Gnasher animated series is relaunched, with the new name of Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, effectively reversing the "softy" changes made to the Menace in the last series, but retains some of the characters. CBBC Presenter, Chris Johnson has taken over the voice role of Dennis the Menace.
201324 JulyIssue 3695, The Beano's 75th anniversary issues is released, featuring a handful of celebrities including Sir Alex Ferguson, David Beckham, will.i.am, Bruce Forsyth, and the Dandy's very own Harry Hill.
20134 DecemberLong-serving artist Charles Grigg dies aged 97.
201426 FebruaryA real-life Bash Street is unveiled in Dundee to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Bash Street Kids.[3]
201426 AugustArtist Jim Petrie dies aged 82.
20141 DecemberThe Dennis the Menace Minecraft mod is launched.
20151 AprilThe Blast in Beanotown app for the iPad is launched.
201628 SeptemberThe Beano gets a brand new logo, the biggest change to the masthead since 1971.
2016 28 September Dennis is made "politically correct" as the comic strip is rebranded Dennis and Gnasher.
201723 AprilArtist Leo Baxendale dies age 87.
201716 SeptemberIssue 3902, Since Curly moved, JJ and Rubi are introduced since they both moved in. Pie-Face has been redesigned.
20187 MarchBig Eggo returns to the Beano after 69 years away.
201825 JulyThe Beano Comic reaches 80 and had a birthday issue guest edited by David Walliams, and the Dennis Fan Club returned.
201829 August & 5 SeptemberGnasher goes missing (again!)but is found round the back of the Beanotown Battersea dogs and cats home a week later.
2018 19 December Minnie the minx celebrates her 65th anniversary, having first appeared in 1953.

References
  1. "Minnie the Minx artist retires". BBC News. 8 January 2001. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1446045.stm
  3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-26359708
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